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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL F. M. ZILL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,869, dated August 13,

Application filed April 24, 1889. Serial No. 308,406. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL F. M. ZILL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved game apparatus which is simple in construction and which affords great amusement.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved game. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal central sectional View of the same. fication. Fig. 4 is a vertical central longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The circular platform A is provided with an extension B and with suitable supports C, which hold the said platform slightly inclined from the extension B to the diametrically-op posite part. The platform A is surrounded by a raised rim D, and on the inner side of the same a series of pockets or compartments E are formed by partitions E on that half of the platform opposite the extension B. In the upper surface of the platform aslight depression or cavity F is formed for receiving a ball G at the center of the platform, and at both sides of the same an inclined partition H is provided. A figure .I is secured on the top of the platform near the inner end of the extension B, and is provided with an inclined ball-chute J and an opening at both ends.

At the upper opening a lip K is provided, upon which the ball M can be placed. A figure Cpreferably that of a bird-ispivoted on a hollow casing P, containing a spiral spring R, which presses upward against a disk R, secured on a pin S, projecting downward from the figure O. The ball G is placed in the cavity F and the ball M 011 the lip K. The tail end of the bird 0 is then depressed, whereby the spring R is brought in tension,

Fig. 3 is a plan View of a modi-.

and when said tail end is released it is thrown upward suddenly by the expanding spring R and its beak strikes the ball M and throws it off the lip K. The ball then slides down the chute J and runs into one of the pockets E having different numbers. If the ball M strikes the ball G, the latter also rolls into one of the apartments or pockets E, and also counts.

In the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the chute J 2 is arranged vertically and the lip K projects horizontally. A curved rod Q projects upward from the chute, and from the same the figure T of the bird is suspended, by means of a wire U, and the figure is swung from the front of the upright chute and then released, and its beak passes through the aperture J 3 in the front of the chute and strikes the ball M, and throws the same off the lip K. The ball drops to the bottom of the chute and then rolls over the platform, in the manner previously described. 1

Having thus described my invcnti on, I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. In a game, the combination, with a circular platform having a raised rim, and partitions along part of the rim forming compartments, inclined partitions on said platform near the center, a chute 011 the platform, a lip for receiving a ball on said chute, and a swinging figure adjacent to said lip, whereby when the figure strikes the ball resting on said lip the ball rolls through the chute upon the game-board, substantially as set forth.

2. In a game, the combination, with a platform having a raised rim, of partitions forming compartments along part of said rim on the top of the platform, an upright chute at that part of the platform opposite the compartments, a lip 011 said chute for holding a ball, and a swinging figure adapted to strike against said ball, substantially as set forth;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL F. M. ZILL.

Vitnesses: 7

CHARLES KLEINSCHMIDT, WILLIAM VocKE. 

